Posts by NanoMeter

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions

That's why I stay away from smart systems

Rare updates. End of Life for hardware and software.

China cracks down on personal information collection. No, seriously

Chinese government:

Personal information for me, not for thee.

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

Think of the kids, FFS.

That's the standard phrase. I suppose that's the government's idea still.

Children will learn fast, VPN is their answer. Even simpler, just install a TOR browser.

Tesla, Musk double down on $56B payday appeal

I don't know...

Greed, perhaps?

Microsoft decides it's a good time for bad UI to die

Always considered the Control panel to be a very important part of Windows. ThankfullyStartIsBack/StartAllBack will continue with it.

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

Pretty sure Startisback will include a control panel for us retro dudes.

Microsoft cancels universal Recall release in favor of Windows Insider preview

Recall the recall

Fair enough.

Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over 'unpaid bills'

Elon Musk =

Donald Trump when it comes to paying bills.

New orientation assistant to help prevent astronauts getting lost in space

Beat Street Breakdown!

Lost in space, and what is it worth?

Huh, the President just forgot about Earth

Spendin' multi-billions and maybe even trillions

The cost of weapons ran in the zillions

Amazon workers are in a warehouse of pain, independent report finds

Amazon warehouses are sweatshops

in the western world.

UK to crack down on imported Chinese optical fiber cables

The converters at the end of the fibers

are Chinese too? They may steal your data and send it too CCP, you know...

Fuming Tom Hanks says he had nothing to do with that AI dental ad clone of him

"Bootleg movies" with replica actors created with AI will start to pop up

It has only just begun.

Chinese vendor apologizes for claiming Microsoft open source code was its own product

Stealing the works from everybody else

That's what China is best at.

Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster

Meanwhile China is releasing several times more into the ocean on a regular basis.

The infographics on this site, says it all: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/world/asia-pacific/20230623-118053/

Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs

Not long....

before they force everyone to boot into the cloud.

WTF is solid state active cooling? We’ve just seen it working on a mini PC

Cool...

but please report back when it works on desktop CPUs.

Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted

Besides auto moderation of words

I don't think there are much moderation. I have managed to get locked out for 12 hours for an unfortunate use of a word.

No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final

I'll stay with Windows 10

for as long as I need to. Let Windows 11 grow out of the bug phase.

New models of IBM Model F keyboard Mark II incoming

Miss the time when

Keyboards was something Epic with spring like keys. IBM keyboards comes to mind. Modern gaming keyboards don't create the same feeling.

Want...

Russia fines Google $374 million for letting the truth about Ukraine be told

Re: Yandex

DDG use Bing and Yahoo! as search engines. They probably only use Yandex for search on Russian sites.

D-Wave to go public after $1.2 billion merger deal with SPAC

Need to get me one of those quantum machines. Can never get too powerful computers. Just need to win the lottery first.

SpaceX Starlink sat streaks now present in nearly a fifth of all astronomical images snapped by Caltech telescope

Well, thank you

Elon.

Ceefax replica goes TITSUP* as folk pine for simpler times

I made commercial teletext ads for a commercial TV station back in the days

The graphics was even badder than ZX Spectrum's. Making logos was a bitch.

Be glad Internet took over.

It's primed and full of fuel, the James Webb Space Telescope is ready to be packed up prior to launch

Hope they made a copy of JWST

Because what can possibly go wrong?

AI algorithms can help erase bright streaks of internet satellites – but they cannot save astronomy

E-ELT

They have built it for nothing. Waste of time.

Teen bought Google ad for his scam website and made 48 Bitcoins duping UK online shoppers

Entrepreneurial

Very entrepreneurial of him.

Nobody cares about DAB radio – so let's force it onto smart speakers, suggests UK govt review

Norwegian radio stations cared about DAB+

Unfortunately for them, their listeners did not care. They're now losing listeners all the time.

Lenovo's latest gaming monster: Eight cores, 3.2GHz, giant heat sink, two fans. Oh, and it has a phone bolted on

Almost good

Not 27 inch screen, no keyboard and not fully QHD. Else it's good specifications.

AI recommendations fail fans who like hard rock and hip hop – official science

People listening to Nightwish might not like Engelbert Humperdinck. However, they might like Disturbed.

Microsoft fixes the thing it broke via another dose of out-of-band patching to deal with BSOD printing problems

Permanent BETA software

MS has turned Windows into a permanent beta software which continue to use its users as testers.

At least back when MS published Windows with new numbers and/or names you knew you would get something out of the box that would work OK.

Out of this world: Listen to Perseverance rover fire its laser at Mars rocks as the wind whips around it

Science Fiction fact

Won't come closer to Star Wars than this.

Apache foundation ousts TinkerPop project co-founder for tweeting 'offensive humor that borders on hate speech'

How even dare you to question identity politics and woke culture?

You really must be a Qtard or a Trumptard...

That's how black and white politics has become after four years of Trump.

Extremists on both ends of the scala wants to decide what you should think.

Doctor, I think I have an HDMI: Apple starts investigating M1 Mac Mini graphics issues

Feature...

Must be a feature, not a fault...

Has Amazon finally gone cuckoo? Bezos' behemoth turns to crowdfunding for Alexa-powered timepiece

Fools crowdfunding

Like Amazon doesn't have enough capital to fund their own research development. Only fools will crowdfund this.

Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

I understand how FB thinks

The Newspapers chose themselves if they want to publish news on FB. And it will be FB who have to pay them for it if it accepts the law.

European Space Agency open to hiring astronauts with a physical disability

Personal assistant

The disabled astronaut must shirley have a right to a personal assistant in space and on the Moon?

Looking for the perfect Valentine's gift? How about a week of retro gaming BBC Microlympics?

Dangerous Level

I reached Elite, Dangerous level before I switched to a 16 Bit computer. Now I'm trying once again on the PC.

A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI

Niiice

Now I'm going to build myself a "hardon collider" in the kitchen.

MediaTek's latest Dimensity phone chippery is 25 per cent faster than its predecessor, supports 200MP cameras

Extremely lossless ZOOM!

Think of the lossless Zooooooms, man!!! It will be like a European-Extremely Large Telescope in your pocket!

Did Arthur C. Clarke call it right? Water spotted in Moon's sunlit Clavius crater by NASA telescope

Sunlit side?

All "sides" of the moon get sun.

Yeah, I know I'm "Captain Obvious".

Who watches the watchers? Samsung does so it can fling ads at owners of its smart TVs

If they gave me the TV for free...

I might accept some advertising if I got it for free, but not when I pay 1000s of pounds for it. I will not buy a Samsung TV in the future.

I am going to buy a new TV within a half year.

It will not be long before they demand their PC monitors to be connected to the internet so they can force advertising on people.

Atari threatens to hit fourth VCS shipping deadline, provides pictures of boxes as proof of product delivery

Get a Spectrum Next instead

It can run Atari 2600 games and of course games for ZX Spectrum (Next) and other Z80 machines.

The "photos" from the productions is probably just CGI anyway.

G'day mate, I'll take two tinnies, a packet of Tim Tams, some Vegemite, and a bork

What The Bork!

That looks borked up. WTB!

Is today's AI yesterday's software routines with better PR? We argued over it, you voted on it. And the winner is...

Yesteryear's AI routines worked very well

I often used IF... THEN when I programmed in basic in the 80s.

As Amazon pulls union-buster job ads, workers describe a 'Mad Max' atmosphere – unsafe, bullying, abusive

The "liberal" Bezos

Jeff Bezos likes to portray himself as a liberal and progressive. Yet his company is fighting the organizing of unions among the workers.

I can see my house from here! Microsoft Flight Simulator has laid strong foundations for the nerdy scene's next generation

Ye Good Olde Days

I guess it's better than the Acorn Electron flight simulator I once flew then.

Users of Will.i.am's Wink IoT hub ask 'Where is the love?' as they're asked to pay for a new subscription service

Not HAPPY

The users are probably not HAPPY about this.... Oh sorry that's the Pharrell guy.

AI startup accuses Facebook of stealing code designed to speed up machine learning models on ordinary CPUs

Companies of FB size think they can do what they want

If they lose the suit, they'll just buy up the company suing them

RAND report finds that, like fusion power and Half Life 3, quantum computing is still 15 years away

Too optimistic or was that too negative

I'm sure we will have powerful enough quantum computers in 5-6 years time.

Australian privacy watchdog sues Facebook for *checks notes* up to £266bn

In Australia...

if anyone is supposed to breach privacy, it should be the government..